[ before joshua can say anything else, quip back a smart response in return, the room shifts, taking on a darker, more sinister tone, the shadows warping and swollowing up the rest of the room, and for once in his life, joshua's gripped by crippling fear.
there's no one else in the room now.
just joshua, and the split second where neku is too far-- joshua frozen, unable to push his proxy out of the way of minamimoto's incoming flare, joshua seeing his best laid plans go to waste, he's watching neku consumed by the flare even though joshua was going to take the hit for him and escape--
and then the flare consumes him too, and all joshua can feel is despair cutting through him like a knife, no no no stop it-- ]
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there's no one else in the room now.
just joshua, and the split second where neku is too far-- joshua frozen, unable to push his proxy out of the way of minamimoto's incoming flare, joshua seeing his best laid plans go to waste, he's watching neku consumed by the flare even though joshua was going to take the hit for him and escape--
and then the flare consumes him too, and all joshua can feel is despair cutting through him like a knife, no no no stop it-- ]